This particular post is continuation of a footnote I’ve added to my post The Lives of Oil and Water I wrote on June the 2nd:
I learned something important in regard to aids given for Aspie children in mainstream schools. These aids are actually destructive to the well being of Aspie children. When I think of someone being an aid, I think of that person as being my helper.
I would not call a cult leader an aid. I know it sounds harsh and extreme to say that it’s possible for the NT culture to be one gigantic cult,¹ but in reality that’s what it actually can be (or already is?). Only people who are in a cult believe they are not in a cult. Only the ‘outsiders’ can see objectively. Children are vulnerable to being brainwashed. The aids that are assigned to school children are there to ‘train’ up the child in the way to go. They are NOT there to explain why people behave as they do.
These aids are NOT there to encourage thinking. They have no idea that they’re actually causing confusion to Aspie students. The Aspie students are going to be blind to what’s going on because they’re vulnerable due to wanting to fit in with the world.
The long-term effect of being someone you’re not is self-destructive, because what’s being practiced is ‘double mindedness’. When it’s your own mind that’s divided against itself, it’s weakened. The end result is an Aspie who will one day face the end of when he can continue with the charade.
Integrity is wholeness. Wholeness is a sound mind. When the mind is healthy, the body will then also be. Maybe I need to continue with this explanation in another post? At least the warning has been sounded here.
I’ve mentioned previously that my grown-up NT daughter was once an aid in a special school that contained autistics. She also has friends who are in this profession. That’s how I have come to know what these aids do and don’t do. Because my daughter knows me and loves me, she knows how important it is for me to know the truth.
She is fully aware of how much I’m a thinker. She has lived the negative consequences from the effects that brainwashing by NTs once had on me. I suffered NOT from Aspergers, but rather from confusion and a horrible self-esteem inflicted upon me by those in my past who foolishly thought they were helping me. Because of God creating me to be such a critical thinker (always analyzing everything), she escaped with a clear mind that thinks sharp as a tack and her self-esteem couldn’t be better.
She experiences the healthy ‘after’ effects that learning the truth has on me (and vice versa). That’s what motivates us to be honest with each other. She teaches me and I teach her. That’s the way it should be between NTs and Aspies.
P.S. — The only ultimate source of truth left in this world anymore comes from God; revealed in His word through the bible. That’s just the way it is, whether someone likes it or not. Even the devil knows that and that’s why he creates mass confusion about what Christianity is.
¹Cult |kəlt| noun — a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object : the cult of St. Olaf.
• a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister : a network of Satan-worshiping cults.
• a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing : a cult of personality surrounding the leaders.
• [usu. as adj. ] a person or thing that is popular or fashionable, esp. among a particular section of society : a cult film.
ORIGIN early 17th cent. (originally denoting homage paid to a divinity): from French culte or Latin cultus ‘worship,’ from cult- ‘inhabited, cultivated, worshiped,’ from the verb colere.
• a system of religious beliefs and rituals
• adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices
• an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
Given the above definition of what a cult is, it’s not too far fetched for Aspies to refer to the NT society as being a cult. To Aspie adults, the way that NTs think and function is regarded as strange and sinister.
Confusing vulnerable and influential individuals to brainwash them is what cults do. Brainwashing is not allowing a person to keep his own way of thinking.
